Bill Cunliffe

Bill is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in Los Angeles

About Me

After Bill Cunliffe won several Down Beat Awards as an Eastman student, he went on the
road as pianist and arranger with Buddy Rich, touring Europe with Frank Sinatra. He later
performed with Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Art Farmer, Woody Shaw and
James Moody.
Bill was the 1989 winner of the $10,000 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Award,
and received stipends from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American
Composer Federation. Bill was Marian McPartland's guest on her famed "Piano Jazz" radio
show in June '98.
His latest CD,